) – not an ‘ issue ’ , except , perhaps , for the PR people . ” Hersh = U.S. “ tradition ” ignores civilian casualties and SO DID HILLARY ! Obama & Hillary We asked why they are so “ obsessed ” with replacing Assad in Syria .
This policy of pristine — and preening — disengagement from the grubby imperatives of realpolitik yielded Crimea , the South China Sea , the rise of the Islamic State , the return of Iran . And now the horror and the shame of Aleppo . After endless concessions to Russian demands meant to protect and preserve the genocidal regime of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad , last month we finally capitulatedconflict.yield.surrenderto a deal in which we essentially joined Russia in that objective . But such is Vladimir Putin ’s contempt for our president that he would n’t stop there . He blatantly violated his own cease - fire with an air campaign of such spectacular savagery — targeting hospitals , water - pumping stations and a humanitarian aid convoy — that even Barack Obama and John Kerry could no longer deny that Putin is seeking not compromise but conquest .
Separately , rebel leaders told reporters that they would not accept emergency medical evacuations if food and medicine were not also delivered to people trapped inside . United Nations officials have said that forcing people to leave their homes in order to receive aid is against international law . But in practice , the government has taken back a number of areas with starve - or - surrenderconflict.yield.surrendertactics , bombarding and starving people until they agree to leave . In any case , without guarantees and a halt to shelling and shooting by all sides , aid agencies can not begin to provide the medical evacuations and humanitarian aid deliveries to eastern Aleppo that United Nations officials said they would aim to carry out after Russia agreed to extend its cease - fire . Advertisement Continue reading the main story
( CNN ) A State Department Inspector General report said former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton failed to follow the rules or inform key department staff regarding her use of a private email server , according to a copy of the report obtained by CNN on Wednesday . The report , which was provided to lawmakers , states , " At a minimum , Secretary Clinton should have surrenderedconflict.yield.surrenderall emails dealing with Department business before leaving government service and , because she did not do so , she did not comply with the Department 's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act . " The report examined record keeping laws , policies and practices at the State Department from 1997 to present . In producing the report , the Inspector General 's office interviewed former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright ,
Cruz added that Trump would lack similar advantages heading into South Carolina ’s primary on Feb. 20 . Conservatives " have been burned over and over again , ” he said . " The people in South Carolina do n’t want to nominate another deal - maker , someone who will give in and capitulateconflict.yield.surrenderand give up on our principles . “ I think they ’re looking for a strong constitutional conservative , ” Cruz added . " What we are seeing is conservatives uniting behind our campaign . ”
Three days later , Khomeini himself made a direct appeal to the White House . " It is advisable that you recommend to the army not to follow Bakhtiar , " wrote Khomeini in his " first first - person " message on 27 January . Khomeini , in effect , had three requests : smooth the way for his return , press the constitutional government to resign , and force the military to capitulateconflict.yield.surrender. The ayatollah also included a subtle warning that if the army cracked down , his followers would direct their violence against US citizens in Iran . Still , he made sure to end on a positive note , emphasising the urgent need for a peaceful resolution of the crisis .
The craziness of this stems from the fact that the entire academic economics profession abandoned Keynesianism in the 1970s . Its failure to explain stagflation was considered to be the final nail in the Keynesian coffin . Franco Modigliani ’s presidential address to the American Economic Association in the late ' 70s was a remarkable white - flag - of - surrenderconflict.yield.surrenderspeech by one of the prominent Keynesians . He confessed that Keynesian “ stabilization policy ” had been a failure . Then , like a bad horror movie , Keynesianism reared its ugly head fifteen or twenty years later as though it had never been discredited .
Dozhd soon found itself the subject of a Kremlin smear campaign and was booted from its offices in an old Moscow factory . The coup de grâce for Dozhd came in 2014 when one of its programs asked viewers how they felt about the siege of Leningrad , which resulted in a half - million deaths during World War II . Should the Russians have capitulatedconflict.yield.surrenderto save lives , journalists asked . Putin immediately accused the TV station of “ neo - Nazi ” tendencies and a lack of patriotism . Overnight , cable stations across the country dropped Dozhd , virtually shutting it down .
A new Breitbart / Gravis poll released Wednesday shows that more than two - thirds of registered voters oppose President Barack Obama ’s surrenderconflict.yield.surrenderof control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) to a multi - stakeholder group that includes foreign governments . The transfer happened last weekend , on Oct. 1 , despite vocal opposition from Congress and concern that regimes such as China , Russia or Iran could eventually censor free speech on the Internet . advertisement
It is not the first time Russian officials have suggested that certain chapters of Russian history are sacred . In January 2014 , independent liberal broadcaster Dozhd TV came under attack . It was accused of smearing the memory of WW2 veterans by asking whether residents of wartime Leningrad could have been saved by surrenderingconflict.yield.surrenderthe city to Nazi forces . Image copyright Kommersant Image caption " Citing Nuremberg " - a court ruled that blogger Vladimir Luzgin was guilty of denying facts established by the Nuremberg Trials The public discussion of WW2 history has also been curbed by a controversial 2014 law against the rehabilitation of Nazism .
Japan had surrendered . Hide Caption 36 of 38 Photos : World War II in pictures A jubilant American sailor kisses a nurse in New York 's Times Square on August 14 , 1945 , as he celebrates the news that Japan has surrenderedconflict.yield.surrender. ( Because of the time difference between the two nations , the surrender occurred August 15 in Japan ) . Hide Caption 37 of 38
Why did America drop not one but two atomic bombs on civilian populations ? The story goes that dropping two atomic bombs on civilian cities saved lives . Because , had we not dropped those bombs , Japan was not going to surrenderconflict.yield.surrenderand consequently America would have had to invade , like D - Day and even more lives would 've been lost , right ? So , let us examine this with a clear head . An invasion of a handful of tiny islands in the south pacific can not really be compared to the D - Day invasion .
One - apparently a crew member - escaped by climbing out of the aircraft 's cockpit window . Throughout the morning , people had been seen leaving the aircraft after appearing to have been released . Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption A man was seen fleeing from a cockpit window shortly before the hijacker surrenderedconflict.yield.surrenderLocal media reports said the hijacker had handed over a four - page letter in Arabic after the plane landed at Larnaca on Tuesday morning , and that later a woman thought to be his wife had arrived at the airport . Earlier , Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades had responded to a reporter 's question about whether the hijacker was motivated by romance , by laughing and saying : " Always there is a woman involved . "
Here he delivered a rambling letter in Arabic making a number of demands , including to meet with a European Union representative and for the release of female prisoners in Egypt . " There was no logical consistency for the demands to be taken seriously , " Kasoulides said . It all came to a dramatic end when Mustafa surrenderedconflict.yield.surrenderat Larnaca airport with his hands in the air at 1 pm . Hijacker Mustafa hands letter to flight attendant to be delivered to his ex - wife . Photo : Twitter / The Cairo Post
It offers passenger and freight services to more than 75 destinations . In March , EgyptAir Flight 181 en route to Cyprus was hijacked by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide belt . The hijacker surrenderedconflict.yield.surrenderat Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus and all passengers were released safely . No one was hurt in the incident , which Cypriot authorities said was not terrorism related . A Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt 's Sinai peninsula in October , killing all 224 people on board .
In October 2015 , a Russian plane crashed into the Sinai Peninsula after what may have been a terrorist bomb brought it down . In March , a passenger wearing a fake explosives belt hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverted it to Cyprus . The crisis was resolved within hours when the man , later determined to be psychologically troubled , surrenderedconflict.yield.surrender. In May , EgyptAir Flight 804 plunged into the Mediterranean , en route to Cairo from Paris , killing all 66 people on board . The cause of the crash is still under investigation .
" Double your efforts . Triple them , if need be . We will not stop until the last drug lord , the last financier , and the last pusher have surrenderedconflict.yield.surrenderor [ been ] put behind bars -- or below the ground , if they so wish , " Duterte said during his State of the Nation speech on July 25 . Despite the bullish tone , a government spokesman insisted the Duterte administration is against any form of extrajudicial killings . " We do not condone these acts , " Presidential Communications Office Secretary Martin Andanar said .
In the coming weeks , the organization charged with maintaining the internet 's infrastructure will unveil a plan to surrenderconflict.yield.surrenderthe US government 's oversight , marking a symbolic step towards more decentralized internet control after years of international pressure . If all goes as planned , on September 30 , the US will cede its control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) , the nonprofit charged with managing components like internet protocols and domain names . The decision has been on the horizon since ICANN was founded in the 1990s , but the scheduled transition has not been without opposition .
Kerry believes the plan is the best chance to limit fighting that is driving thousands of Syrians into exile in Europe and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching tens of thousands more . The talks came as opposition groups effectively surrendered the Damascus suburb of Daraya to the government after a grueling four - year siege . Kerry said the Syrian regime had " forced the surrenderconflict.yield.surrender" of Daraya in contravention of the February cessation of hostilities agreement , but Lavrov said the local accord was an " example " that should be " replicated " . The Russian foreign minister said another besieged area was " interested in such an operation with mediation of the Russian Federation . " He did not name the area .
Hide Caption 3 of 38 Photos : World War II in pictures German soldiers on the Esplanade du Trocadero view the Eiffel Tower . In June 1940 , German troops marched into Paris , forcing France to capitulateconflict.yield.surrenderand establish the pro - Axis Vichy French government . Hide Caption 4 of 38 Photos : World War II in pictures British Hawker Hurricanes fly in formation during the Battle of Britain in 1940 .
They had something very concrete at stake , in the shape of an international nuclear deal with Iran concluded in the Austrian capital last July after years of negotiations . Under the agreement , Tehran will abstain from a broad range of nuclear activities and limit others in return for relief from sanctions . Trump has portrayed as it as an Obama authored American capitulationconflict.yield.surrenderto the Islamic Republic . “ My big concern is that he has said he will tear up the nuclear deal with Iran . That would be catastrophic , ” said a senior diplomat in Vienna .
The chances of intentional conflict are real , as is the possibility of an unintended clash escalating . At the same time , Syria is not essential to the national security of Russia or the United States . It is not without importance , but a defeat or capitulationconflict.yield.surrenderthere will not change the balance of power between them at all . It would of course affect psychological and political perception , but in the long run , perception ultimately comes down to substantial military and economic power . The United States can afford to back off .
Recent developments include military operations around the city of Aleppo , the entry of Turkey into the ground war , Turkish hostility toward U.S.-backed Kurdish rebel groups and the presence of American military advisers in widening conflict zones . Meanwhile , in a blow to the opposition , rebel forces and civilians in the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya were to be evacuated on Friday after agreeing to surrender the town late Thursday after four years of grueling bombardment and a crippling siege that left the sprawling area in ruins . The surrenderconflict.yield.surrenderof Daraya , which became an early symbol of the nascent uprising against Bashar Assad , marks a success for his government , removing a persistent threat only a few miles from his seat of power . Referring to Daraya , Lavrov said : " This is an example I think will get some following . " He said the Russian military 's reconciliation center in Syria has received a request from another area to organize a similar operation — with Russian mediation .